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"Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity."
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"Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen."
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"It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness."
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"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't."
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Personal Development
"My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town."
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"You think too much of your "toilette", Adele; but you may have a flower." I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash. She sighed a sign of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full. I turned my face away to conceal a smile I could not suppress; there was something ludicrous as well as painful in the little Parisienne's earnest and innate devotion to matters of dress."
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"It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power."
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Personal Development
"An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me."
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"Vanity is man's love affair with himself."
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"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."
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"Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?"
Humor
"You know that old phrase 'Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it'? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off."
Reflection
"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."
Happiness
"It's the last frontier to conquer, other people, strangers, the jungle of their arms and legs, hair and skin, the smells and moans that is everybody you haven't done. The great unknowns. The last forest to devastate. Here's everything you've only imagined."
Love
"Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."
Life
"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't."
Life
"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
People
"First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life."
Family
"You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp."
Growth
"In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor."
Humor
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